Calls for Iraq Pullout Grow Louder

The calls for a withdrawal from Iraq are growing louder as this post from the hawkish American Thinker demonstrates.

Overall, its a good post. However, there is one point at the end I disagree with:

"Of course, in the event of such a war, the Saudis might not be able to ship any oil via the Persian Gulf, nor the Iranians either. The world economy would be hit by a mighty spasm, and if the interruption lasted very long, tens of millions or more might die in the world’s poorest countries, and the rich countries would find themselves facing a lot of economic disruption."

I doubt the Iranians would be so foolish as to try to strike at The Kingdom via the gulf. Not with five US carrier battle groups present.

We do well to remember that the Iraq War is not the same as the War on Terror, but merely represents a single strategy-end the clash of civilizations quick and early by exporting our own values into their lands.

It seems clear that this experiment has failed. But thats no reason to accept defeat just yet. In the US' two main armed conflicts of the Cold War, the Korean War and Vietnam War, we were able to achieve only a stalemate in the first, and were defeated in the second. But we would go on to become the clear winners of the struggle with communism. Winning in Iraq is not necessary to winning overall, and a temporary loss might be an investment in a long term victory.